Bitcoin Design Update #32
Bitcoin Design Update #32
Design-a-thon, Fedimint, Sat(s), Ordinals, and more...
Community 🧑🤝🧑
Today on Community Call #37 (on Jitsi), we will talk about the design-a-thon we are planning to organize in October. The event will be an opportunity to explore design ideas and concepts together that we typically may not find the time for. Discuss in #playtime.
Check out the Design Crit recording for Machankura. After the RoboSats crit, the team created a bounty, and Demi has started working on design improvements. See the thread.
Fedimint design call #1 happened (recording). Come and help with design and information architecture for fedimint.org.
If you haven’t seen it, view the recording of the last community call where the Summer of Bitcoin students present their design work on Padawan wallet.
The discussion around moving from Slack to Discord continues. Chime in.
For all upcoming calls, subscribe to the calendar.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
Various pages in the Daily spending wallet reference design got big updates in the last 3 weeks:
Backup & recovery (all 4 pages)
Privacy (also see the new Wallet privacy page)
UX research call #4 (recording) was about adding personas to the guide (issue).
Mo is looking for feedback on her case study draft for the Blixt design sprint.
Bitcoin wallets can also be used for authentication and low-friction payments with other services. For more, see the new Sign in with bitcoin page.
We have 60 open issues, which are requests for improvements that anyone can choose to tackle. If you’d like to get hands-on…
We welcome contributions to the bitcoin design guide, if you would like to make a suggestion to the content please feel free to check out our contribute page.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Stephen will host a design table at the TABConf Builder Day. Let him know what you think should happen there.
What do you think of Mo’s UX research toolkit ideas (video, thread)?
“100 Sat” or “100 Sats”? Discuss
Any good UX examples for creating transactions in batch and signing them via multi-sig? Reply here
Bosch did a review of Kraken’s UI for on-chain and lightning withdrawals. Watch.
Ordinals are a numbering scheme for satoshis. Are some sats more rare than others? (thread)
What do you think of Jakub’s #getonzero prototype (thread)?
Bolt.Fun is seeking feedback on a name/branding for their tournaments, you can chime in here
Everything else
Himanshu and Autumn wrote articles about their experiences with Summer of Bitcoin.
In #opportunities, Foundation is looking for a Senior Digital Product Designer, Coinmiles for a UI & Branding Designer, and Bolt.Observer for a front-end engineer.
The DraperX Bitcoin Studio accelerator is accepting applications (thread).
Recordings from the Surfin’ Bitcoin conference are available.
Rapid gossip sync, created by the LDK team, helps your node speed up the initialization process.
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow on Twitter.
This update is brought to you by Mo, Johns, and Christoph. We’d love to hear your feedback.